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Training Foreign Military Forces: Quality vs Quantity

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Like It or Not, a Solution in Syria Is the Only Way to Defeat ISIL

While the Iraqi military is back on the offensive, without resolving the conflict between the Assad regime and various rebel groups within Syria, the Islamic State is not going anywhere in Iraq.

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How Turkey’s entry into the anti-ISIL campaign might save the Islamic State

The entry of Turkey into the war is on balance damaging for the coalition’s chances against the Islamic State. The United States must determine how to salvage the situation.

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Don’t Bother Working Through Baghdad

The United States is fighting a losing battle with Iran for influence over Iraq's national government. U.S. interests would be better served by working directly with Iraq's Kurds and Sunni Arabs.

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Vietnam Teaches Us that Iraq Needs More than U.S. Combat Advisers

The advisers-only strategy proposed today by many in Washington won't cut it unless they have U.S. ground troops to back them up.

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Navigating the Islamic State Challenge

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Doting Father and Feminist: The Other Side of Saddam’s Half-Brother, the Head...

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Around the World: Episode 2

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History as Farce: From Napoleon to Maliki

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Should the U.S. Send Ground Troops to Fight ISIL in Iraq? Point/Counter-Point

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Lessons from the Liberation of Sinjar

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Mosul: Turkey’s Fulda Gap

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The Obama Administration and the Middle East: An Insider’s View

WOTR’s Ryan Evans sat down with Colin Kahl, the National Security Advisor to Vice Present Joe Biden, to talk about the mess of the Middle East and what the Obama administration is doing about it. From...

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Playing Iraq’s Game of Thrones

The past few weeks of events in Iraq have been both personally and professionally depressing. The fall of Tal Afar was personally depressing because I spent a year in that area back in 2006-2007 living...

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Weekend Reading: June 20

Every Friday, War on the Rocks posts the best articles, analysis, and multimedia on foreign policy, national security, and current affairs for our readers in the Weekend Reading List. This week, we...

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Whoops, He Did It Again: Obama’s ISIS Lesson for Afghanistan

Washington has descended into a familiar battle: the blame game. The issue is Iraq and a major territory grab by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), but that is unfortunately secondary to the...

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Realpolitik and the Misuse of History

If we needed any further confirmation, the crisis in Ukraine and the breakdown of Syria and Iraq have underlined, once again, the limits of Western power. In truth, the notion that there are many...

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Something is Rotten in the State of Iraq

The monthly death toll in May 2014 was Iraq’s highest since 2008. The year 2013 was the most murderous in five years. In late 2013, violence flared in western Iraq’s Sunni Anbar province, as fighters...

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Iraq and the City of Man

Humans have been storytellers since time immemorial. Stories are how we make sense of our world. We reduce complex events to digestible, quite often self-indulgent, narratives. I heard one of those the...

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What Hyman Roth Said: More Summer Cocktails

Editor’s note: Molotov Cocktail is our drinks blog.  It features reviews of spirits, beer, and wine; great cocktail recipes WOTR readers are sure to appreciate; and any other content we think fits....

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